You can also make this holiday favorite a week or two ahead and freeze in air tight bags or make collard greens a day or two in advance and refrigerate in the slow cooker insert if you have room. Pour in 1 2 cup of the reserved liquid. Southern collard greens are a staple in soul food homes. Meanwhile chop up 1 onion 1 4 red pepper and 4 strips of bacon. Remove the stems from the collard greens then stack the leaves on top of each other and roughly chop.
Cook stirring occasionally until greens are bright green and slightly wilted about 4 minutes. Cover and cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4 hours until the greens are tender. Collard greens like most southern greens can be made several different ways. Let the insert stand at room temp for 30 minutes. Check out the video and recipe card for more info.
How to make southern style collard greens with ham hocks. Add 2 3 cans to a slow cooker add any extra seasonings if desired and heat on high for 1 5 2 hours. Boil 3 ham hocks in pot of water over low heat for approximately 2 hours or until meat falling off the bone tender. Return the ham pieces to the pot. Reduce heat to medium low and simmer uncovered for 10 minutes.
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Add the greens ham hock salt pepper and water into crock pot. Check out his other recipes and links. Cooking this classic southern side in a slow cooker not only frees you up to prepare other dishes it frees up valuable stovetop space as well. Add the collard greens to a slow cooker with the onion ham hocks brown sugar pepper salt apple cider vinegar and chicken broth. Bring the greens to a boil.
These tender slow cooker collard greens are made flavorful with ham hocks. Sometimes i make my soul food collard greens with bacon ends. To heat canned collard greens in the crockpot. I would skip the ham hock for it needs more time than canned greens to cook. Chop and clean collard greens as shown in the video.
Season with salt and black pepper. Also i used pork neck instead. The peppery greens work well when slow cooked. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours or on high for 3 hours. Season with salt and black pepper.
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The peppery greens work well when slow cooked. Cook stirring occasionally until greens are bright green and slightly wilted about 4 minutes. You can also make this holiday favorite a week or two ahead and freeze in air tight bags or make collard greens a day or two in advance and refrigerate in the slow cooker insert if you have room.